Forthcoming events in 2025:

2026

26 January Topping’s Edinburgh Pilrig St. Paul’s, Leith Walk 19.00

12 February Topping’s St Andrews, Greyfriars Garden, St Andrews 19.30

19 February Granite Noir, Lemon Tree, Aberdeen 19.00

4 March An Evening with Graeme Macrae Burnet Barnsley Book Festival details tbc

Some recent podcasts:

BBC World Service World Book Club: His Bloody Project

Take Four Books on BBC Radio 4 In conversation with James Crawford and Louise Welsh about A Case of Matricide and some of the books that influenced it.

Dark Isle: The Scots Whay Hae! Podcast Talks To Graeme Macrae Burnet In conversation with Alistair Braidwood about Benbecula

Gorski Parked: The Scots Whay Hae! Podcast Talks To Graeme Macrae Burnet In conversation with Alistair Braidwood about A Case of Matricide

Across the Pond In conversation with Lori Feathers and Sam Jordison about (among other things) doppelgangers, nihilism and guilt.

BBC Radio 4 Book Club: His Bloody Project. Studio discussion at BBC Broadcasting House, London chaired by James Naughtie

Writers & Company In conversation with Eleanor Wachtel for CBC (Canada)

On The Couch With… The SWH! Podcast Talks To Graeme Macrae Burnet In conversation with Alistair Braidwood about Case Study and related matters

Happy Accidents: The Scots Whay Hae! Podcast Talk To Graeme Macrae Burnet In conversation with Alistair Braidwood about The Accident on the A35

ALSO ONLINE NOW: 

Wolverine Blues, or A Case of Defiance Neurosis, my five-part story inspired by ‘Defiance neurosis of a seventeen-year-old high school student’ by Alphonse Maeder. Commissioned by BBC Radio 4

SELECTED PAST EVENTS

2025

30 November St Andrews Festival, St Columba’s Church, London

27 November Darkland Tales: BENBECULA, British Library, London.

31 October Faclan: The Hebridean Book Festival, In conversation with Ian Stephen. Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. An Lanntair

20 November The Pleasures and Power of Reading, National Library of Scotland

26 September Wigtown Book Festival: BENBECULA

27 September Wigtown Book Festival: THE GORSKI TRILOGY

29 August Islay Book Festival, In conversation with Charlène Busalli, St. John’s, Port Ellen.

13 September Watching the Detectives, Bloody Scotland, Albert Halls, Stirling

13 September St Duthac Book Festival, St Duthac Bowling Club, Tain

21 June In the Labyrinth in conversation with Magda Sendecka, Big Book Festival, Warsaw, Poland

28 June Small Towns, Big Secrets: Graeme Macrae Burnet, Kate Hilton & Elizabeth Renzetti MOTIVE festival, Toronto

29 June Writing the Detective: From Maigret to Marlowe MOTIVE festival, Toronto.

14 February Barcelona Negra: Voces en mi cabeza. Round table with Ann Cleeves & Ivy Pochoda

2024

8-10 November A Write Highland Hoolie, Mallaig.

25 August Graeme Macrae Burnet: Case Closed. Edinburgh International Book Festival.

27-28 April Colonsay Book Festival

22-25 February Vilnius Book Fair, Lithuania

2023

25 October Books on the Tyne, Lit & Phil Library, Newcastle.

11 August Fringe by the Sea, North Berwick

16 June    Borders Book Festival, Melrose

24-28 May HeadRead Festival, Tallinn, Estonia

4  March Graeme Macrae Burnet: A Case Study, Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Northern Ireland

8-11 March Le Printemps Simenon, Liège, Belgium

10 February Barcelona Negra

2022

13 OCTOBER Gordon Burn Prize event, Gala Theatre, Durham

22 OCTOBER    The Literary Cabaret, Vancouver Writers’ Festival

24 OCTOBER    Reading/Q&A at Exile in Bookville, South Michigan Avenue, Chicago.

25 OCTOBER    Is Truth Stranger? In conversation with Colin McAdam, Ottawa Writers’ Festival, Christ Church Cathedral.

27 OCTOBER   Greenlight Books, Brooklyn, New York City.

18 NOVEMBER  Keynote address, Territoires et mémoires d’Ecosse, 21st international conference of the French Society for Scottish Studies, La Sorbonne, Paris.

4-6 JUNE Goéland Masqué festival, Brittany, France

14 JUNE   Blood! Sex! Crime! On why we devour sensationalism. In conversation with Shrabani Basu, Hallie Rubenhold, Tamara Tubb & Bee Rowlatt. British Library Theatre, London.

2019

19-20 October   Festival sans nom, Mulhouse, France

5-13 October   Seoul International Writers’ Festival, South Korea

20-22 September   Livres dans la boucle, Besançon, France

13-15 September   Le Livre sur Place, Nancy, France

16-18 August St Hilda’s College Crime Fiction Weekend, Oxford.

28 February In conversation with Rupert Thomson at Waterstones, Sauchiehall St, Glasgow.

23 February Granite Noir with Stella Duffy, chaired by James Naughtie, Lemon Tree, Aberdeen

2018

28 November   Buchanan Building, St Andrews University. In Conversation. Man Booker Event.

3-4 November  Xabia Negra, Spain

20-21 October Festilitt, Parisot, France,

29 September  Tidelines festival, Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine

27 September  Festival of the Mind, Sheffield University

23 September    Bloody Scotland: European Crime Fiction, Stirling

21 September   Bloody Scotland: The Art of Crime Fiction, Keynote for Crime Writing Masterclass, Stirling

11 August  Edinburgh International Book Festival, Spark Theatre, George Street

3  August  Bute Noir: ‘Far Horizons’ with Abir Mukherjee, Rothesay

8 July Man Booker 50 Festival: Genre Benders, with Paul Beatty, Eleanor Catton & Deborah Levy, Southbank Centre, London.

8 July  Man Booker 50 Festival: Using Your Research, Southbank Centre, London.

22-14 May Residency, Ventspils House, Latvia

11 May    Experimental Fiction, Moniack Mhor, Kiltarlity

6-8 May Quais du Polar, Lyons, France

29 March  An Evening with. . . Waterstones Islington

25 March   Aye Write! Mitchell Library, Glasgow

17-18 March  Krimimessen Horsens, Denmark

13 March   Soirée littéraire with translator Julie Sibony, Alliance Française, Glasgow

8 March Krimfestivalen, Olso, Norway

20 February In conversation, Conference Centre, Brussels

6-13 February Kolkata Book Fair, India

23 November   In conversation with Sinéad Morrissey, King’s hall, Newcastle University

15 November  Man Booker Prize Foundation event, Logie Lecture Theatre, University of Stirling